From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:51:17 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: docs: --xattr
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X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=54ef47a5a0de388d0ace96cd1c354127888a374d;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git

docs: --xattr
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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 45e9f52ae3..aa3679e074 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -1594,6 +1594,14 @@ Specifies a custom FTP command to use instead of LIST when doing file lists
 with FTP.
 
 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
+
+.IP "--xattr"
+When saving output to a file, this option tells curl to store certain file
+metadata in extened file attributes. Currently, the URL is stored in the
+xdg.origin.url attribute and, for HTTP, the content type is stored in
+the mime_type attribute. If the file system does not support extended
+attributes, a warning is issued.
+
 .IP "-y, --speed-time <time>"
 If a download is slower than speed-limit bytes per second during a speed-time
 period, the download gets aborted. If speed-time is used, the default